Beyoncé and Jay Z rule as American music royalty, each boasting a career timeline and a work ethic that any artist could envy. They’re individually capable of drawing arena crowds, and yet they’re touring together for a show that could be exponentially more explosive as a duo.

The husband and wife, ages 44 and 32, have influenced each other’s output significantly, to the point that their styles are beginning to merge. Take the “Drunk in Love” performance that opened this year’s Grammys: Beyoncé was as vocally possessed as any brilliant rapper, while Jay Z danced with the verve of a pop performer.

Before Mr. and Mrs. Carter arrive at AT&T Stadium on Tuesday for their “On the Run” tour, let’s look back at their individual and combined power moves through the decades.

The ’90s: Destiny and ‘Doubt’

Beyoncé Knowles entered her teen years during the ’90s and also received her first taste of the national music spotlight. After enduring major-label misses with the Houston R&B group Girls Tyme, she and three others landed a record contract that stuck in 1996 and became Destiny’s Child.

By the end of the decade, the group racked up memorable chart hits and awards but also suffered from the drama of a lineup change. They sailed into the next decade with the final roster of Knowles (front-and-center lead), Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams.

Jay Z (born Shawn Carter) had an even more meteoric rise. Fueled by years of breakneck rap battles and featured spots on other artists’ tunes, Carter released his first album as Jay Z, Reasonable Doubt, in 1996 to instant acclaim and respect. His rich storytelling style developed further as he put out three more albums in the decade, one a year.

The 2000s:‘Me and My Girlfriend’

By 2002, Knowles and her Destiny’s Child mates had reached the heights of stardom as a group and concentrated on solo efforts instead. Young Beyoncé also began dating Jay Z.

As his rap retirement completed the transition from artist to record label mogul, she was just beginning her solo dynasty. The couple operated in complementary musical realms, and they collaborated thrice in 2002-2003 — famously on “Crazy in Love” and “That’s How You Like It” for the blockbuster debut album, Dangerously in Love, but more meaningfully on Jay Z’s single, “’03 Bonnie & Clyde.” The latter tune introduced their ride-or-die approach to couplehood.

The year 2006 brought the pair three additional collaborations: Knowles and her man upped the sex appeal for B’Day’s “Upgrade U ” and “Déjà Vu,” while they lamented the ugliness of the biz in “Hollywood ” on Jay Z’s post-retirement record, Kingdom Come.

If you asked them to name their favorite year of the decade, it’d probably be 2008, the year of their nuptials. The bride didn’t take much time to rest: That same year, she hit the pop stratosphere with “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It).” We’ve all danced to it.

The 2010s:The Blue period

This decade has seen the Carters make their biggest pop moves yet, as well as their most ambitious artistic collaborations. In the last four years, we’ve seen Beyoncé rock the Super Bowl, announce her pregnancy with an unforgettable televised performance of “Love on Top” and, last winter, drop — unannounced — an audio-visual masterpiece of a fifth album.

Jay Z did some of the more masterful rapping of his career with Kanye West on Watch the Throne, toured stadiums with Justin Timberlake and boosted his mogul status by launching the Roc Nation Sports agency. The husband and wife (and parents to Blue Ivy) have chanted together on “Tom Ford,” professed their inebriated adoration on “Drunk in Love” and inspired the summer stadium tour’s name with the subtly biographical tune, “Part II (On the Run).”

The first line of the last track speaks to their thoughts on marriage, in the wake of never-ending media rumors and that Solange Knowles elevator episode:

“Who wants that perfect love story anyway?”

Summer of love

Regardless of what the next few years have in store for Jay and Bey, they’re currently holding their romantic and artistic endeavors up to the bright lights for massive stadium crowds to witness. The “On the Run” tour will find the couple trading and sharing the stage for more than two hours. And if anybody can pull off such a marathon of music, it’s these two crazy kids.

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